On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:02:25 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:54:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Sid.
> > What's the way to find out what packages are obsolete and what they
> > should be replaced with?
>
> Your question is pretty vague. What do you mean by obsolete?
>
> AFAIK if you remove etch and lenny from sources.list all packages
> that are not available in sid anymore will be listed by aptitude as
> 'Obsolete or locally created packages'.
>
> For packages that are obsolete/orphaned ... and going to be removed
> you can also watch debian-news. Sometimes you can even find
> recommendations for replacing it in the package description or bug
> reports.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
Also check deborphan if you meant packages (libraries) you don't need
anymore.
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